Corporator's husband chopped to death in barber's shop

BANGALORE: As CN Srinivas walked out of his house on Wednesday morning, four men watched, and waited. Srinivas made his way to a hairdresser's on Wasim Road, KR Puram, East Bangalore, and settled down for a haircut.

It was around 9.30am when the four armed men rushed into the barber's shop, attacked Srinivas with machetes and ran out.

"The assailants came on motorbikes. Some of them had covered their faces with cloth. They fled towards Hoskote," an eyewitness told TOI. Immediately after the attack, police shifted Srinivas, a resident of Muniyappa Layout, KR Puram, to Manipal Hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.

Two special teams headed by the ACP, KR Puram division, is looking for the assailants and has detained a few men, sources said.

BUSINESS DEAL GONE SOUR?

A builder and realtor, Srinivas was facing a threat to his life, his close friend Santosh Reddy said. "He was planning to build a layout near Anekal. Talks were going on between Srinivas and a few land owners. We suspect this claimed his life," he said.

BJP PROTEST

Accusing KR Puram police inspector Sanjeevappa of apathy, BJP leaders including former chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda, Bangalore South MP Ananth Kumar, BJP state president Prahlad Joshi, former BJP MLA from KR Puram Nandish Reddy and their supporters staged a protest outside KR Puram police station, demanding his immediate suspension. "We had informed KR Puram police that Srinivas is facing a threat to his life. But they did nothing," Nandish Reddy alleged.

Around 100 Karnataka State Reserve Police personnel were deployed at the spot and senior police officials including DCP (East) PS Harsha pacified the crowd and assured them of stern and quick legal action against the assailants.